Nick Curtis
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Nick Curtis
@nickcurtis
Chief theatre critic of the Evening Standard, feature writer, award-winning interviewer. Views my own, jokes probably stolen
London
Joined November 2008
- Still doing dry January. But might take up crack
- Shall we keep this one going?Labour have admitted wanting repeated national lockdowns 🛑🛑🛑 Our approach will keep our country and its regions moving ➡️ @BorisJohnson explains why at #PMQs👇
00:00 - My wife thought Rentacrates was a Greek firm pronounced Ren-TACK-ra-TEES. Can’t think of it any other way now
- Here’s my interview with ES Theatre Award winner Jodie Comer: ‘Prima Facie is what I’m most proud of in my life’ | Evening Standard
- Heard he bumped into a friend amid WWII Salerno firefight who said “Bunny, what on earth are you doing here” and he replied “shopping”
- So we miss funerals, cancel weddings and allow theatre and live music to die by observing restrictions while the PM (“I shook hands with everyone”),his chief advisor, his dad and Jacob effing “parliament must sit” Rees-Mogg flout them. We see you, you charlatans
- Feel it should be noted more widely that UK death toll is now over 112,000
- @JulianClary being inducted into the Palladium Wall of Fame by @OfficialALW. “You see a 60-year-old homosexual made happy.”
- Happy to see the west end opening up again. Furious that our theatres are being ignored #scenechange
- The wording of my last tweet reminded me of my fave ever typo, in an ad for discounted treatments at a beauty salon: “Go on, soil yourself!”
- Shabby of BJ to suggest people avoid theatres (and gigs, and bars, and restaurants) but to stop short of instructing venues to close, though could be cock-up not conspiracy. Brave and right of individual venues and trade bodies to take a heartbreaking decision.All of London's theatres are set to close until further notice after government's advice to avoid public buildings over coronavirus standard.co.uk/go/london/thea…
- Delighted to announce that I will shortly be taking on the best job in London, chief theatre critic of the Evening Standard. Following in distinguished footsteps and looking forward to it hugely.
